Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
A BLIND INVENTOR.
,.n,tructing a Magazino Gun Without the
Aid of Sight,

a
Aid of sight.
English Letter from Vienna.
1nsye had the opportunity of meeting
40 inventor of new rife. Herr FAM
ro-+eIka, g former lieutenant Of the Aus
--;on army, who, during the first campaign
- Rosnis received shot in his right eye
.-.nicb destroyed the optic nerve and indi-
III so affected the left eye that the
60 officer, now only twenty-eight years
r. has been for the last nine years to-
taTy hind. But without the use of his
.--aSiobt this ingenius man has invented
,-rinG these years not only q new
~~.oyszine rife but also two machines for
80 snti-oxidation of iron, steel and other
.o.oIs at cost which must be called ri
I;cnIously small; further, an apparatus
~ eutom6tical mapping, a new microme-
-o- new sort of gunpowder, not to
..aek OF smaller inventions which found
.5oir wsy into the lesser industrial es-
..5iishments of Vienna and saved the in
,,entor from starvation, as his greater
discoveries, far from bringing him money
ss vet, necessitsted an outlay which he
s.n sfford only by extreme personal pri-
ratfons. "My rife" complained the for
mate inventor, "would have long been
= the hands of the British government
bod the advance money which | obtained
tom private person in London
Cen more than go, which did not
mice for the wages of the one work
-,sD w1o assisted me and the necessary
Material. Now at last it is finished, and
-5ongb may fall into the fault of all in
,ar+6rs. | consider 1t the best rifle eX-
,s,ing beng without the disadvantages
-I1tber machine rifles, and with many
s=rgDtsges over them. l can prove by
mn Austrian and German patents of five
r.srs $50 that toe straight pull system
which distinguishes every modern rife,
and ia itself, without the machine, Sc
r7-ss the double effect, has been my in
rsr-t0n. Upon this and upon other
srnrOpriations in the same line by diff
f--snt successful inventors | do not lay
sry stress. There is my new rife, which,
n short, has the following advantages:
T can be used as a single-loader, even
with On attached magazine; the cartridges
s-e rot thrown into the magazine in s
nose form, but the one above the other,
without the possibility of placing them
wrongly; the magazine can be attached
9- not At viii, all parts are solid, ard no
sYirsL spring exists il the rifle. The price
0tmY weapon withr0yalty and everything
else viii be uuG er e.. Every old system,
win the exception Of Werndrs can be
used FIR transformation into my rife at q
COS. Of S or 10 shilIingg-less in the case
Of Gras, Mauser, Berdan or Beaumont,
and something more in the case of Henry
NsT.ill,o
uAnd how can you make any invention,
especially such d complicated one as a
-iae without, unfortunately, being able
70 STE the separate parts, and how are
701r devices carried out by the work
msr.'
~ see with my fingers, and not in one
single case have they deceived me. It's
really curious that when great and
minute measurements are IN question
those who see them with their eyes are
wrong, and I, with the use of my fingers,
an right. The models for my machines
sgq.ns- oxidation of metals were en-
l1ag made by myself from carved wood
with the help OF string, wire, and breadJ
crumbs. sm now dey;sing ,Xery5c6nz
FIc2ted electric apparatuss,r